socket
Example Sentences
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My father, the hardcore pacifist who can’t even squish a spider, reaches for the power cord snaking from the television to the wall socket.
From Literature
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
“These sockets saw, and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.”
From Salon
A burning house looked to Akira like a glowing skull, its broken windows hollow like eye sockets, its exterior walls black against the bright orange fire that filled it.
From Literature
The illuminated door lever pops out of its socket and a puddle light projects the Cadillac crest at your feet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
